It’s been two weeks since the horrific terrorism of October 7th. Within days, the balance of sympathy in the West tilted rapidly away from the atrocities and towards pro-Hamas sympathies. Antisemitism has skyrocketed here in Britain, which has been a safe home for Jews for hundreds of years.
A small group of us urgently felt the need to redress the balance and show support to British Jews. The result was the October Declaration which launched on Monday with over 200 high profile signatories from politicians to playwrights, including Sir Tom Stoppard, Professor Richard Dawkins, Lord Frost, Dame Maureen Lipman, Andrew Neil and Professor Niall Ferguson.
What we all share is the belief that antisemitism has no place in British life and firm solidarity with British Jews.
Who would have thought this should even be necessary?
Sadly the response to the attacks in some quarters was extraordinary and shameful. Before the people of Israel had the chance to count the bodies, there were marches around the world with chants of “death to Israel” and “gas the Jews”. To some academics in the West, Hamas’s blood-soaked pogrom was a fine example of decolonisation. Student unions who are normally all over the concept of ‘safe spaces’ tweeted cartoons of paragliders. People who normally obsess over hate speech failed to condemn acts of hate.
It was dizzying that after the worst examples of terrorism I’d ever heard of (and the stories and photographic evidence have only got worse) people were on the streets in this country to celebrate mass murder.
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorism a friend told she was worried about how her half-Israeli children would be treated at school. I’m ashamed to say I had no idea how correct her fears were. In the first week, four Jewish schools felt compelled to close, in London, in 2023. A letter was sent to a Jewish school in London, saying, “Well done Hamas. You Jews will pay the price for what you have done. From a PLO Team”. I know of another family sending their children to school in non-uniform because they feel unsafe. No British child should be afraid to go to school.
In the days that followed October 7th there have been 24 assaults, 35 cases of damage and desecration to Jewish property, 64 direct threats, 475 cases of abusive behaviour, including verbal abuse, graffiti on non-Jewish property, hate mail and online abuse and two instances of mass-produced antisemitic literature. The litany of examples on the Community Security Trust makes shameful reading. It is abhorrent that British Jews are being called “filthy Jew”, “dirty fucking Jew” and children have been told to “go back to the chambers”.
I was naïve and didn’t know antisemitism was this serious, alive and ready to burst through the surface.
The disproportionate treatment meted out to Israel and Hamas by the media makes it clear. The media quickly replicated Hamas’s false report that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza. Intelligence experts expressed their surprise that anyone could have known who was responsible so soon after the explosion. The BBC and other media organisations around the world chose to put due diligence and restraint to one side and believe Hamas, an organisation which butchers babies and parades desecrated corpses through the streets.
The refusal of the media, including our national broadcaster to call Hamas what it is in fact and law – a terrorist organisation – has not helped. This misleads the public and creates a false impression that the state of Israel and a terrorist group are moral equivalents. They are not. It’s also an abominable affront to the dead, the bereaved and those living under the threat of terrorism. It is shameful that the media are being dragged kicking and screaming to call Hamas a “proscribed terrorist organisation”. Monsters would be better.
One letter signed by over 2,000 actors and artists – “bleeding heartless liberals” as Dame Maureen Lipman called them – condemned Israel’s military response but did not once mention the terrorism itself. When I first read it I was sure I’d made a mistake, missed the part where they expressed shock and grief about the butchering of babies and condemned Hamas. They did not. This letter was a stinging slap in the face to British Jews at a time when they should have expected commiseration, solidarity and friendship.
This felt very wrong.
I exchanged emails with Dame Maureen Lipman about signing the October Declaration. She told me she had written a letter of her own. You can read quotes from it in this moving article about the October Declaration by Allison Pearson, but I wanted to share her words in full.
I find it astounding that any newspaper published the heinous letter (by Artists for Palestine U.K.), signed with a flourish by the great and the not-so-great of our trendiest actors and the usual Jew-ish ashamed Jews of the peripheral Left. How dare they accuse the Israelis of war crimes against Gaza without once mentioning the bestial slaughterhouse which was perpetrated on Israel in that very same week or the hostages taken by Hamas – these are the entire cause of the current retaliation.
When babies were garrotted, women dragged by their hair and a family had eyeballs gouged out and fingers chopped off in front of their children – do they really think that Israeli blockades on the border with Gaza are a justification for such acts of violence?
Those bigoted signaturists, do they have no soul as well as no judgement? These bleeding heartless liberals care so deeply for the Palestinians (who, since 1937, have turned down no fewer than five offers of a two-state solution) that they espouse their cause at the expense of every other oppressed people of the world. The Palestinians are not Hamas, I agree; they just elected them. And, 17 years later, Hamas has done nothing for the Palestinians save stealing the millions donated in aid money while keeping them in penury.
I would love the signaturists to answer me this question: if your beloved country had been under attack for 70 years, with concrete tunnels under Birmingham and York and Ipswich, and rockets landing daily on Oxford University and Penny Lane and the Tiny Tim toddlers club, and the world despised your success in turning a desert into the most beautiful and innovative and free-thinking democracy in the region and wanted it handed back. And if the world felt that it was deserved when your country’s neighbours carried out bloody pogroms. Again. So, tell me, how angry and exhausted and how determined to defend your country against any future attacks would you be?
If there was a charter signed by a terrorist group which vowed to kill every Protestant and drive every English institution into the sea, which abducted 200 men women and children in Oxford Street (on Christmas Day) including Chelsea Pensioners and Nadiya Hussain and Mary Berry – and tortured and raped your sons and daughters – if that happened, Messrs Social Conscience, tell me, please tell me, in your view, what would be a proportionate response? To give the English coast back to the Normans?
What do you want of these beleaguered people of the book who are forced by their neighbours to be people of the tank? Do you want them, perhaps, to give back the land given to them by the UN – perfectly legally? Or to give up Gaza? Again.
Or maybe you want them to sit down and have gentle talks sitting on Persian carpets with avowed murderers backed by Iranian mullahs.
You artists purport to work in a business which, above all, demands empathy. Yet, you cannot see an inch past your own prejudice that the only good Jew is a homeless, victimised, impoverished one.
Shame. Shame. Shame on every one of you.
As the book of Proverbs says (12:18): “The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” If one letter pierced, another can heal. This is what the October Declaration seeks to do for British Jews. It has three clear purposes: to show solidarity with British Jews, unequivocally condemn the terrorism and ask the media to call Hamas what it is: a terrorist organisation. If there is a time to show we stand with British Jews it is now.
Our group has received messages from Jewish friends which communicate how necessary this was. Here are just a few:
I really wanted to share with you how completely empowered I felt signing the October Declaration today. Both, the Declaration and Allison Pearson’s article in today’s Telegraph made me stand a little taller and steadier. Everyone I spoke to felt the same way. So many of us feel like the rug has been ripped from under our feet. We feel alone, unheard and a little frightened about what the future holds for our Jewish communities in the U.K. and around the world. I am so grateful to all those who worked on this declaration and all those who signed it. We have a greater chance of creating a world we can all live in, if we are proactive about taking a stand on the important issues that are needed to maintain the healthy fabric of our society.
I felt heartened and then more so to read about the British Friends and Declaration and to know we have friends brave enough to speak out in the way you, along with Toby, Allison, Francis and your other co-organisers, are doing.
As a British Jew, I wanted to thank you sincerely for your involvement in putting together the October Declaration.
It means a lot to me and my family to know that at least some of our compatriots “have our back”.
It goes some way towards neutralising the shock I have experienced at the reaction of many of my fellow colleagues, many of whom have never once called for the Israeli hostages to be released – which has shaken me to my core.
It’s no good to say it “goes without saying”. It does need to be said. We do have your backs.
The public response has been overwhelming and it’s just getting started, which shows the importance of the initiative. More public figures have signed, including former Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, as well as 35,000 members of the public.
We’re humbled to play a small role in highlighting the underlying decency and wisdom of the British people. Please add your name. Sometimes all you can do is speak up and use your words to heal.
Sign the October Declaration
Laura Dodsworth is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller A State of Fear: how the U.K. Government weaponised fear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her new book is Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it. This article first appeared on her Substack page, the Free Mind, which you can subscribe to here.
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I have tried signing this but the verification email is not reaching my personal email account. Tried my uni account and it turns up in the junk folder. I can’t tell if the verification process completed successfully.
It is a sad day when signing this declaration would mean aligning with the treasonous and worse Bozo Johnson.
Same here. I’ve signed twice using two different email addresses, since the first one didn’t result in a verification email, and I’ve still not got one.
So I have no idea if my signature has been added.
Without taking any sides (who the fuck am I to ‘take sides’ from my safe cab anyway?!) the overwhelming take away I am getting from this is the same as what I did from the Ukraine v Russia media exclusive FiteNite™;
1) The media is intentionally being polarising and divisive.
2) The left is a bunch of hypocritical clowns.
Seems to me like the real issue should be people in the regions who are inevitably going to suffer as a consequence of it all.
One day you will be called to take sides. Hamas & Islamists definitely aren’t ever gonna take your side.
Oh I am anti-radical Islam, just as I am against the radical-pink-haired Left.
But this isn’t a me vs Islam story, this is a political tale
It’s controlled entirely by the media and places where people are “taking sides” based on their little reddit and twitter crowds (not that I’m saying you are, NickR, but you know full well that the overwhelming amount of people are).
I remember back in FiteNite™ part one, people in the “West” were trying to out victim their side by showing pictures and videos of various dead people online. Look what my side has to endure! etc.
I don’t find it particularly helpful when the average person in these regions is actually going through it all.
Definitely not in a conflict about who controls Jerusalem. That’s something the people who desire to control Jerusalem (et al) have to fight out.
Spot on!
I agree the MSM are a bunch of tosser, and shouldn’t be believed about anything..for Christ’s sake you’d think people would have learned that lesson…
I suggest that if you haven’t already, have a look at The Duran on YouTube, or Tucker’s latest episode with Col McGregor…. if the US neocons get their way we will all be dragged into it..and we won’t remember where it started, or why…..
I’m justifiably as afraid of the neocons in the US and the UK as anyone else..they have the power to move this to a world war..
Since the 1937, the people whose ancestors had been living in Palestine for centuries have rejected five proposals suggesting that they should simply accept the invasion of Europeans with machine guns which took place under the auspices of the British occupation troops after 1918? What’s so surprising about that?
A vast oversimplification, and in no way constructive.
A historically accurate description. Whether or not that’s constructive for some political agenda you desire to support is not my concern, because that’s decidedly not my struggle. I also don’t believe in misty-eyed pacifism. Warfare and conquest will always be with us, except where suppressed by the conquerors themselves. And even these usually don’t last forever.
My cognomen derives from the fact that I served 17 years as a Navigator in the RAF,. I thus don’t need any lectures on ‘misty eyed pacifism,’ I find your tone of hectoring condescension offensive..
Me too.
That’s the great thing about Free Speech RW has the right to offend you have the right to be offended. Just saying.
There are many statements in the International political arena, including from China and Russia, to the effect that the 2 state solution is the best way forward to establish a stable peace.
Given the current situation in the area, is the 2 state solution really the best answer for stable peace in the middle east?
If it is the best solution? is it achievable? could International political and diplomatic pressure ever manage to bring the 2 state solution into existence?
When something keeps being proposed for 86 years in a row, it’s cannot be workable option. Especially not when neither of the two parties which are involved here really want it. As far as I can tell, they’d both like to control all of the area in question and get rid of the other party. I think this is a conflict which is set to remain in existence.
I suspect a major cause for the impracticability of a 2-State solution would be the fact that both sides lay claim to a piece of land which is fundamental to both sides’ beliefs.
Yes. The Jerusalem-issue simply cannot be resolved peacefully as all involved parties are perfectly willing to go to war over it. Just their abilities for actually doing so are different.
Well said and great stuff, Laura! More on how this all relates to the woke ideology with a bit of Thomas Sowell thrown in; ”There are no solutions, only trade-offs.” I’m definitely of the ”constrained vision” camp. I wouldn’t care but this, much like the Ukraine/Russia conflict, isn’t even our war but this uncontrolled immigration for years has seriously come back to bite us on the arse hasn’t it? Just a shame that it’s us who didn’t vote for or support this who wind up suffering the consequences.
”The events of the last two weeks have shattered the illusion that wokeness is about protecting victims and standing up for persecuted minorities. This ideology is and has always been about the one thing many of us have told you it is about for years: power. And after the last two weeks, there can be no doubt about how these people will use any power they seize: they will seek to destroy, in any way they can, those who disagree.
This unpleasant conclusion is surprising only if you are still clinging to the unconstrained vision. But if there is any constant in human history, it is that revolutionaries always feel entitled to destroy those who stand in their way.
Just as hope about the possibility of peace with jihadists seems suicidally naive, reconciliation with citizens seized by the woke mindset seems a long way off.
As Sowell explained, “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
And the truth is that we have indulged in magical thinking for too long, choosing comforting myths over harsh realities. About terrorism. About immigration. And about a host of other issues. In our hunger for progress, we have forgotten that not all change is for the better. Now the world is paying the price for that self-indulgence. Let’s hope recent events are the wake-up call we so desperately need.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-day-the-delusions-died-konstantin-kisin
The “unconstrained vision” vs “constrained vision” sounds a lot like Locke vs Hobbes, respectively. Though one could argue that it is really more like Rousseau vs Hobbes, respectively, being two sides of the same authoritarian coin per Horseshoe Theory, with Locke in the middle and farthest away from both. Thus, it seems to be a false dichotomy.
Well done LD
BTW the uptick function seems not to work on my iPhone any more.
Don’t worry, the down one does.
(Still retained my sense of humour despite the last 3.5 years)
Press harder!
I’ve been supporting the Palestinians for decades and nothing has changed my mind.
Palestinians in vast numbers support their liberation from Israel.
The number of deaths is more important than the nature of the deaths.
Israel has killed far more Palestinians than the other way round.
Palestinians have tried non-violent resistance in the past but were met with Israeli aggression killing hundreds.
Israel in the past 2 weeks have killed 5,000+ most of whom were women and children compared to the 1,400 Israelis killed by Hamas.
Supporting the plight of Palestinians doesn’t make one an anti-Semite.
Death strikes from Israeli airstrikes passes 5,700. ( I know it’s the Guardian, but what’s a few hundred between friends).
Just look at the score since 1948.
Oh, and the Israeli army is ranked the 18th “best” in the world – GFP index, 2023.
And Palestine/Hamas err…
But I’m classed as antisemetic for pointing out the bleeding (forgive the pun), obvious.
The result of all this – nobody knows, but it’s a fair bet that there’s no chance of Israel normalising relationships with the big players in the Middle East. That would never do for the RPTB. Sadly that’s played into the hands of Hamas – as they no doubt calculated. They may be terrorists, but stupid they are not.
Also another big bonus for Uncle Sam – think of all those arms sales, mmm.
Quite agree.
Israeli sources say only 20,000 Palestinian Arabs have died since 1948.
Other sources say 5 million Palestinian Arabs have died since 1948.
It will probably be over 100,000 and probably more if deliberate deprivation is factored in (growing all the time).
Israeli losses have been much, much less.
I wonder how many of those Palestinian deaths were due Hamas putting civilians deliberately in harm’s way for propaganda purpose? Martyrdom is a big part of their religion and it doesn’t have to done voluntarily.
Oh, if you want a slant on the Israeli army doing the same – try this, and it’s in the Guardian – before they were captured –
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/israel
I wonder if you can imagine that you lived in Gaza with your young children, huddled in your home, frightened for your life…thirty of your family having been blown to bits the week before?
…and Hammas, who certainly won’t be informing you what they are planning….not caring one way or the other…
I wonder then if you can imagine it being your children who you love as dearly as anyone can, and who you want to have long happy lives….
I wonder if you could think about them as actual human beings with hopes and dreams….
I wonder then if you could muster the slightest bit of compassion for people…?
These are the latest figures that I can find
4,600 Palestinians killed (half of them are women and children
29 UN workers killed
19 journalists killed
37 medics killed
140,000 homes damaged…
Besides the fact that it’s just unconscionable, I also fear (and I don’t know why they don’t ‘get it’)….that you can sign all the petitions you want..but if this horrendous shit continues no one will have any sympathy left…the crimes will so outweigh it….you will literally have lost it all…?
I have absolutely no problem, at all with this article…or the sentiments it it, or with anyone who has created it or who wants to sign it.
I absolutely agree that no one..should ever suffer from racist attacks…
My problem is that while I appreciate there is a strong pro-Israeli stance with DS, I find it, on the whole unpleasant and quite divisive..
My post here isn’t to nullify anything in this article..I wish you peace…..but there is another side, and I absolutely will not be forced to pretend racism only works one way, or that only one set of people deserve sympathy.
There has been a rise in both Jewish and Muslim hate crimes in the UK …. NONE of which is acceptable…and this article is a least fair in its reporting of both…
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/hate-crimes-against-jewish-and-muslim-people-rise-across-the-uk/
Well said. I’ve found quite a list of petitions/letters now, which I’ll list in my next Stack. I haven’t signed any of them. The one that I was most drawn to, perhaps strangely, was this one.
https://www.change.org/p/an-open-letter-from-palestinian-christians-to-western-church-leaders-and-theologians
I’m an atheist (not even lapsed)!
As others have said, the problem with all these petitions is they are divisive. I want to support innocent people caught up in conflict and subject to abuse full stop. To do this we must stop the takeover of our state by ideologies e.g. wokery and islamism, that seek to overwhelm our tolerant, if imperfect, society.
Well done Laura. I have signed it too. God forbid that this conflict should spread to the UK, though there are already worrying signs it has. If it does spread here then I am sure those who seek to spread the jihad will spare little mercy for those misguided luvvies or the fence-sitters.
As a staunch ‘fence sitter’ for anything the media feeds us, what is your advice for me then?
Should I get my sledge hammer out the shed and go dome the local Muslims? When? Now?
If not now, when do I rally the local boys to the cause? Do we go and kill the lovely family down the road at Christmas?
I’d love to know when my son gets involved too. Is 15 too young for him to go behead the local Imam?
I daren’t go out without my tripple-mask and 42 quacksines, coz the papers say it’s unsafe?
How quickly people can transition one irrational fear for another..amazing…
Exactly, and from my fellow sceptics in the DS bastion too!
No, come on down tickers! I would love to know!
Interested in see the response. In the meantime can I suggest you contemplate no such thing. Our biggest problem is that we in the west have lost confidence in our values. The long march of the Marxists has overwhelmed our state and institutions such that we are defenceless against the ideologies seeking to destroy our fragile and relatively free democratic nation. We need to fight to get it back, but it needs to be on a collective basis. Community based initiatives, including collective non compliance are a good start.
What is in the best interests of the British people? Not people with UK passports – whether Arab, Jewish or Pakistani – but the indigenous population.
Clearly, not a successful Israeli campaign of ethnic cleansing, because we’d end up taking in several hundred thousand Palestinians.
Also clearly, not a wider war in the Middle East: our energy position is dire enough as it is.
By giving unqualified support to Israel our globalist-appointed PM is betraying us.
the indigenous population – can you define that? How many generations do you have to live here to count as indigenous?
Good luck with that.
Didn’t we supposedly all come from Africa (whatever that was then).
Interesting if we all went back…
I went to London at the end of September to listen to Laura Dodsworth speak on nudging and how to “free your mind” from it. Fast forward 3 weeks and the same Laura Dodsworth is promoting:
That’s the power of nudge and propaganda. With the right motivation, people turn to the state asking for salvation. Careful what you wish for, such an appeal is open to abuse.
Precisely.
For those who are paying more attention to this conflict than I am; is it yet known what Israel’s actual objective is? I just want the terrorists dead and the hostages safely returned. The former is highly unlikely because there’s so many of them and they’re running around, hiding in the tunnels they made, so have a big advantage there. The latter has a possibility of happening, two Israeli ladies were released last night, but there’s still 200+ held captive and I’ve no idea what’s happening with negotiations amongst the various countries, as a fair amount are foreigners.
Israel can’t just keep bombing until there’s nothing left to bomb because the terrorists ( plus hostages, presumably ) can just stay safely out of the way in subterranean tunnels so I don’t see what that will accomplish other than more civilian deaths. Well it’s the bloody psychopathic murderers we need dead, not the citizens who are trapped there through no fault of their own! But whatever the current state of play is over there it’s a fact that Hamas/Iran would have foreseen and planned for this, so is their objective just making shed-loads of money out of these hostages? Have any Palestinian prisoners been released yet? What’s Biden giving them for the American citizens?
while I don’t agree with your views on this conflict as you have kind of fallen for Israeli hasbara, your heart is in the right place.
You are clearly a good person.
Thank you A Y M.
I want the murderers dead but if it takes, say, 50 civilians to die to eradicate 1 terrorist then it’s obviously an unjustifiable fool’s errand. But any sane person can see this terrorism lark is not going to go away and there seems to be no easy solution to the conflict. It’s an impossibility to eradicate Hamas and Israel should accept that. Priority number 1 should be rescuing the hostages. Israel can still defend their country from the ongoing infiltration of terrorists by land and sea, which a quick check told me is what’s currently happening, as well as the many missile strikes Israel are dealing with from Gaza and Lebanon.
I was considering signing the petition – there is some horrible anti-Semitism around – then I read Alison Pearson’s article. All it is doing is pouring more hatred and anger into the horrible situation.
It’s hard to know what Hamas should be called. What they did was abhorrent and is typical of the cowardly actions of terrorists. However to a lot of people in the West terrorists are a small group of people such as the London 7/7 bombers or a lone actor such as the London bridge attacks. Hamas is much larger and better funded/organised and is an unofficial army, meaning that the attack on Israel was an invasion. Maybe ‘barbaric militia’ would be the best way to describe Hamas.
It’s amazing that some people commenting here accept the figure of over 5,000 people, half of them children (as reported by Channel 4) killed by the totally justified Israeli response. The only source for these numbers are Hamas, since when did people start taking the word of baby killers as fact? Sadly I expect from the depraved woke media, although obviously in any other context such as the war in Ukraine they would say that numbers like that can’t be independently verified, but I thought that people commenting here would know that nothing should be taken at face value.
‘totally justified Israeli response.’
Why is it totally justified? Because an eye for an eye? They’ve killed some civilians so we’ll kill some civilians? Knocking down tower blocks full of families has got nothing to do with ‘destroying Hamas’.
And thus, the dissidents are split.
I was brought up in an orthodox Jewish family, attended Jewish school in Leeds, and visited Israel on a school trip in 1990 just after the first intifada. One day, we were returning from a day trip to Masada when our coach was ambushed by Palestinians armed with rocks. The windows were smashed and our armed guard Shuki pointed his Kalashnikov out of the window ready to fire before the driver managed to barge through the barricade that had been put up and we sped to safety with cuts and bruises and one fractured skull.
Back in Leeds I was the kid who asked our fearsome Jewish studies teacher “why are they so angry with us, what have we done?” – a question that got me into a lot of trouble. That was when I started to look into the history. Without going over the details here, I will just say that Maureen Lipman’s view, one shared by most British Jews, is in my view unreliable, myopic, one-sided, and deeply unjust. Read what she says carefully; she doesn’t just want us to condemn the 7th October attacks, she wants us to collectively blame the Palestinians for the hardships they’ve endured for 80 years, which by extension justifies the wholesale slaughter currently going on in Gaza.
I’ll repeat what I said to the article in DS’s article yesterday:
“I’m totally with Jews and utterly reject antisemitism. However, I’m not with Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza, nor in encouraging Israel to ‘invade’ Gaza (after all many were against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine). I detest the retaliation against civilians – two wrongs don’t add up to a right. I would sign this petition like a shot if it were purely and just for Jews, especially our British ones. But I am seriously worried by the whole Gaza attack which, to me and quite a few others, felt like a kind of 9/11 false flag event, or, if not that, then a Pearl Harbour event.”
I’m sorry Laura I very much admire you and all that you have done over the last few years exposing the “powers that shouldn’t have be”, but on this issue I cannot take sides. The killing on both sides must stop then we can start talking about our differences. As Winston Churchill once said “more jaw jaw less war war”. Personally I think there should be no war war.
Remember the anti-apartheid movement? Remember when we boycotted South African products? Yes…we hated [white] South Africans. Remember when terrorists with ANC badges did terrorism in South Africa? And up popped Laura Dodsworth with a declaration in support of South Africans in Britain branding the ANC as terrorists and not a mention of the role of the South African state in the conflict.
Well Andrew Neil just signed up.
I guess Tony Blair will be next.
Sir Tom Stoppard, Professor Richard Dawkins, Lord Frost, Dame Maureen Lipman, Andrew Neil and Professor Niall Ferguson.
Not inspired to sign anything associated with these people – they don’t inspire me in the least.
Having read Laura Dodsworth’s State of Fear during the Covid hysteria in the USA, I am very disappointed to see her turn towards virulent denunciation of anyone daring to express dissent from mainstream orthodoxy on the latest round of Israel’s decades-long war against Palestinians.
I hope Laura Dodsworth got as worked up when for almost 20 years starting 2001, British Muslims were subjected to state-sponsored racism in the fraudulent and geopolitically motived so-called War on Terror.
Laura Dodsworth was limited hangout, it turns out.